Poll: 18% oppose Mormon candidate

The percentage of Americans who would not vote for a Mormon presidential candidate because of his religion is the same today as it was in 1967 when George Romney ran for the White House, according to a new Gallup Poll on Thursday.

Today, 18 percent of respondents said they would not vote for a Mormon hopeful, compared with 17 percent who responded similarly in 1967. George Romney ran for president in the 1968 election cycle.

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“Now, some 45 years later, George Romney’s son Mitt will be the Republican nominee — and the pattern of resistance to his Mormon religion has essentially not changed,” notes the polling firm.

However, the current figure of 18 percent is down from 22 percent a year ago.

Gallup has asked this question eight times since 1967, typically when a Mormon was running for president, for example during Sen. Orrin Hatch’s (R-Utah) 2000 presidential campaign. The percentage of respondents who indicated they would not vote for a Mormon has averaged 19 percent.

In the most recent survey, Democrats and those who are least educated are the most likely to discount a presidential candidate based on Mormonism.

The percentage of those who would oppose a Mormon candidate rises from 6 percent among those who have a postgraduate education to 23 percent among those who have a high school diploma or less.

Meanwhile, 24 percent of Democrats would oppose a candidate based on Mormonism, compared with only 10 percent of Republicans.

The Gallup Poll was conducted June 7-10 with a sample of 1,004 adults and a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Oh, we all just KNEW that it was only a matter of time before the partisan news media dragged Romney's religion into the campaign, disguised as a "news" story

So when are we going to see the flip side of this story - polls showing the percentage of Americans willing to support a devotee, as Obama is, of the Black Liberation theology which believes that AIDS was a plot by the government to wipe out black people and whose leader preaches " G--D---N America from the pulpit?

10 Facts You Should Know About Mormon History and Belief before Shooting Your Mouth Off 1. Mormons believe in a trinity of three divine persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost who are one in purpose. 2. 1832 - A runaway slave named Elija Able is baptized and ordained to the priesthood. He serves multiple missions to Canada where he would be safe from the Fugitive Slave Laws. He was probably the first black Mormon. 3. 1833 – While about half of all Mormons were residing in Missouri, a slave state, Joseph Smith received a revelation that became section 101 of the Doctrine and Covenants. Verse 79 says "Therefore it is not right that one man should be in bondage to another." 4. 1838 - Mormons were expelled from Missouri under threat of extermination (Executive Order 44). A petition of complaints against them made no mention of polygamy but complains that Mormons invited "free negroes and mulattoes" to join them in Missouri. 5. 1844 - Joseph Smith runs for president with a plan to free all slaves by 1850. He is murdered the same year. 6. 1852 - Utah enacts the most liberal divorce laws in the United States and possibly the world. Any woman who insists on a divorce gets one. Meanwhile, Brigham Young imposes a lineage restriction on the Aaronic and Melchezidec priesthoods; withholding them from presumed descendants of Ham. 7. 1869 - The Utah territorial legislature which was dominated by Mormons voted to give women the vote. At the time, only Wyoming had female suffrage. 8. 1887 - The federal government takes the vote away from Utah women (Edmunds-Tucker Act) . 9. 1978 - Governor Bond of Missouri officially rescinds Executive Order 44 (which had not been enforced for over a century) and formally apologizes for it. The same year Spencer W Kimball and the quorum of the twelve decided to end all lineage requirements for holding the Aaronic and Melkezidec priesthoods. 10. Mormons believe that Jesus is co-eternal and co-equal with God the Father and also believe that Jesus was begotten by the Father before the creation of all worlds.

TEAM POLITICO: "In the most recent survey, Democrats and those who are least educated are the most likely to discount a presidential candidate based on Mormonism.".......................................Birds of a feather there.

It is not the Mormonism alone that I object to. It is the person who in fact a selfish, immoral, idiot who does not understand most of the world. He is anti-Gay, against pro choice females, and against persons who have no gods. The Republican machine will operate it's magic and obtain enough money to make and even buy the election for him but that will not make him a decent human being. Also having done my share of studying the Mormon religion, it would be the basis for a good science fiction story - perhaps not in the league of L. Ron Hubbard but close. This man as President would most likely try all he could to take us back to the days of the past. Not the good days - the nasty ones.

dvmike: " The funny part of the comments above are that all evidence indicates the more conservative a candidate is, the less likely Intelligence exists."..........................This is from a poster who can't manage to match a subject with a predicate.

Curt22: "May have something to do with the Republican nominee for Pres being a Mormon, just a guess"..............Heh. Why don't you guys convince Harry Reid to run for president so we can get to the bottom of this?

It is not the Mormonism alone that I object to. It is the person who in fact a selfish, immoral, idiot who does not understand most of the world. He is anti-Gay, against pro choice females, and against persons who have no gods. The Republican machine will operate it's magic and obtain enough money to make and even buy the election for him but that will not make him a decent human being. Also having done my share of studying the Mormon religion, it would be the basis for a good science fiction story - perhaps not in the league of L. Ron Hubbard but close. This man as President would most likely try all he could to take us back to the days of the past. Not the good days - the nasty ones.

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Hey, you arrogant, short-sighted, little, bubble-boy...'most of the world' doesn't embrace homosexuality, doesn't indulge in intentionally killing their unborn so they can continue to live a life of self-centeredness and believe in God in some fashion.

You're the one who doesn't understand 'the world'.

And given the choice between Mormonism and Black Liberation Theology (Marxism) or Islam......I'll take the former.

TO BETTER UNDERSTAND ROMNEY'S MILITARISM, EVERY ONE SHOULD READ EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE'S SPOTLIGHT ON THE MORMON CHURCH IN POLITICO (May 28, 2012). AS WE NOW KNOW. Romney wants to start another Cold War with Russia--and seems to draw his inspiration on this from the Mormon Scriptures. Mormon “White Horse” prophesies refer to Armageddon-style war with the Russians. It is time to examine their teachings and Scriptures especially as they make direct reference to present day politics in the US. Furthermore, we should all know that MORMONISM IS INDEED A CULT AND A BOGUS RELIGION. Its origin and Scriptures are based on fabrication: They lack historical validity and scholastic integrity, AND YET IT WANTS TO INTRUDE IN POLITICS AGGRESSIVELY. They even promoted what they called the Lost Book of Abraham (2000 years before Christ and lost for nearly 4000) which has been soundly discredited since 1859 as copied word for word from Egyptian Book of the Dead. The Book had more to do with Anubis, Horus (a dead Egyptian priest) and Osiris (who Smith in his fabrication turned into Abraham in his translation) and Egyptian gods of the underworld and prayers of mummification. Joseph Smith had claimed to have translated it from a scroll from Egypt purchased from Michael H. Chandler, a traveling antiquities dealer and salesman, in 1835 in rural Ohio for $2400, a huge sum then. Smith in his translation called it the ancient writings of Abraham—but this claim was proven later to be a big fraud perpetuated to promote the Mormon Church. Abraham was in fact never mentioned even once in the fragments. Yet it is part of the Mormon scriptures—five chapters. The original papyrus fragments that Smith used was rediscovered in 1966. Now POLITICO ARTICLE ALLUDES to Mormonism and Russia--already, we have seen Romney's extreme view of Russia that can start another Cold War. Let every one be warned! Don't say no one told you. If Romney ever gets to the White House it would serve to validate Mormonism in America and worldwide. The White House would be turned to a Mormon sanctuary and the President would be controlled by the top hierarchy of the LDS church.

Are you SERIOUS DUDE??? That church has NOTHING to do with Black Liberatism or MARXISM, ARE YOU ON CRACK??? Where do you guys come up with this crap??? Only white conservatives spit out nonsense terms like Marxism. What black person do you know who walks around talking about Karl Marx? Black people go to church just like any other person and because you get a snippet of a preacher expressing his opinion does not mean that everybody in his church agrees with him. Do you agree with everything your preacher has said? You act like black people who go to church do not have brains of their own! That is STUPID THINKING DUDE!!! So since I am white and go to church, I agree with everything my preacher has ever said??? Again STUPID THINKING!!!

Easydoesit: " Only white conservatives spit out nonsense terms like Marxism."........................Really? You've obviously never heard of Project 21. Maybe you should look into it, just for the information, if nothing else.